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tv   The Rachel Maddow Show  MSNBC  October 14, 2016 1:00am-2:01am PDT

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it was built in the 1890s, was 10 stories tall. it had these cool rounded towers on the corners of the building. it had a big, grand, pillared entrance. the lexington hotel announced itself on matchbooks as absolutely fireproof. see that on the middle of the matchbook, absolutely fireproof. that turns out to be a good thing for the lexington hotel, because apparently, reportedly, there was a secret shooting range buried inside of it. there is a secret shooting range buried in the bowels of that hotel because from 1928 to 1931, the famous gangster al capone lived at the lexington hotel. he ran his whole criminal empire out of the fourth and fifth floors of that building. and he reportedly maintained this secret shooting range for
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his gangster henchmen as well as a gym for them to stay fit. there were also reportedly secret tunnels underneath the hotel that they used to hide and move liquor and other contraband and even to move people who were hiding out or running from the fuzz. al capone was at that hotel from 1928 to 1931, and he had to move out in 1931 because he had to move to alcatraz because they got him for tax evasion. after al capone left the lexington hotel so he could go to jail, the lexington hung on for a while but eventually went into decline. it was called the new michigan hotel, but after its days of being the new michigan hotel, it just became a giant 400-room brothel. by the 1980s, what had been the lexington hotel and then the new michigan hotel, it was closing down, decrepit and started closing in on itself. during the time when it was good for nothing and still standing, that is when geraldo rivera showed up.
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someone discovered underneath it there was a sealed-off area walled off from the hotel's basement underneath the city sidewalk. once that sealed-off area was discovered, the guy from "the people's court," remember that show? i kid you not, the guy from "the people's court," that guy, got an idea that because of the capone connection to that hotel, maybe they could turn that basement room into a tv show. suspense. they would call it al capone's vaults and they would crack it open on live tv. they dug up geraldo rivera who had just been fired from abc news. no one wanted to produce this thing, but they got the idea they would produce it as a syndicated special. so any channel that wanted to fund it as a special could, and they opened al capone's vault.
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this is one of the all-time great promos. >> this is the vault al capone guilt and nobody knows what's in it. some say money. some say bodies. some say it's booby traps. what secret lies inside? it may be al capone's biggest secret and we're opening it on live television. >> some say bodies. some say money. some say it's a booby trap. it was a two-hour special that aired on november 30, 1986. i had just turned 13 and i remember watching it. it's not that weird that i watched it, because statistically speaking, basically everyone watched it. 30 million people watched "the mystery of al capone's vault" that friday night, 30 million people.
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it was and remains the highly rated syndicated special in all of tv history. and they did, on live television, crack open al capone's vault. or at least whatever you want to call that sealed-off space under the sidewalk of the old lexington hotel. they did crack it open. they blew it open with explosives and then they knocked down all the debris with a bobcat, and then they charged in there, and what they found was -- buttkus. it was just dirt in there and pieces of the old sidewalk that had fallen from above. i read one report they also found a stop sign down there, maybe, but i don't remember that from when i watched it from when i was 13. two hours. epic advertising and hype, right? two hours of on-air hype. 30 million people watching. and there was nothing in there. it was -- in its own way, it was totally awesome.
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>> it seems, as least up to now that we struck out with the vault, i'm disappointed by that, as i'm sure you are. this is the one time in life that a pot of gold would have been a lot more fun than chasing the rainbows. our seismic or sonic tests must have been slightly awry because we didn't find the much heralded hollow spaces that we were led to believe were in there. so what can i say? i'm sorry. all right, i'm going. i'll see you. good night. i'm sorry! see you next time. take it easy. >> announcer: "the mystery of al capone's vault" has been brought to you by budweiser, aged for that clean, crisp taste. this bud's for you. and for the good products and good peoplequaker oats company. >> you have to wonder how bud light and quaker oats felt about reading their scripts as geraldo
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rivera just stumbles off the stage, mutterring. there was nothing in al capone's vault. interestingly, this is how we got geraldo rivera. budweiser and the quaker oats company did sponsor it. stroh's beer and others sponsored it. 30 million people watched. at base level, it was a huge success, and it taught us one very important and lasting lesson. hype works. even when it's hype for what turns out to be nothing, hype works. and that is really a lesson that has stuck for geraldo rivera and for all the rest of us, too. on friday night, you know the "washington post" published that tape that it obtained
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mysteriously from the archives of nbc. unedited footage from a behind-the-scenes moment "access hollywood" from 1995. >> i moved on her and i failed. i admit it. i did try to [ bleep ] her. she was married. i moved in on her like a [ bleep ] and i couldn't get her. she was married. >> i need some tic-tacs just in case he starts kissing her. >> i'm immediately attracted to beautiful women. it's like a magnet. if you start and they let you do it, they'll let you do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ], do anything. >> that tape came out on friday. on sunday night, it was the night of the second presidential debate. it was still all anybody could talk about, right, including on the one cable news network that was least interested in talking about it on friday night when that news first broke.
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in the lead-up on sunday, even on the fox newschannel, they had to admit this was the story of the campaign. and in the middle of their pre-debate discussion that night, up popped -- hey, it's geraldo rivera again. and the firework that he set off on sunday night on fox news in the lead-up to their debate coverage that night was that, according to him, he said there are more trump tapes of this kind. and you know who has them? geraldo rivera has them. >> i've interviewed trump many times, been with him many times. there is tape that i have, craig, my brother and i, have just started to go through the tapes now and there are some statements that in the context of the current climate would be, i think, embarrassing. >> that was sunday night. kind of a bombshell, right? tell me more. geraldo rivera says he has more trump tapes. they are embarrassing trump tapes. is fox news really going to release those tapes, fox news of
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all places, really? mr. rivera, i'm hooked. i await your next pronouncement. >> i will open it on live television. step inside the vault with me on april 21st. >> i want to discover the mystery. i am hooked. you're good at this, sir. you've always been good at this. but it turns out just like april 21st, 1986, it turns out once again it's just dirt and maybe a stop sign. in the proverbial vault, no loot, no bodies. check out this climb-down from mr. rivera. contrary to my on-air remarks, a search of my files found no relevant trump tapes. a few minutes later, quote, i apologize to donald trump for piling on and adding fuel to the trump tape scandal. you always treated me and mine with respect and friendship. so reflecting on that respect and friendship, geraldo rivera doesn't have tapes of donald trump after all, despite what he and his brother found the other
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day. even if the fox newschannel and geraldo rivera have changed their mind and decided they don't now have tapes of donald trump, we do continue to anticipate that other tapes of donald trump's on-camera behavior may surface at some point. a lot of people involved with him in various tv shows over the years have described behavior that happened -- alleged behavior that happened while cameras were rolling that presumably produce tape. if those tapes emerge, that will be a problem for his campaign, if those tapes surface in the next three weeks. i have to say it will be a problem for the whole country if he's elected president whereupon any such tapes could lead him to vulnerable blackmail as the leader of this country. but honestly, even if there aren't other tapes forthcoming soon or ever, the tape that we've got, the "access hollywood" tape itself has really driven the whole campaign around the bend. this has sort of slid through in the last couple days and not
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received much attention. but even one of donald trump's evangelical supporters is claiming the access hollywood tape is a plot, and the conspiratorial tape that is that plot was hatched by none other than paul ryan. >> i think this whole tape, videotape thing was planned, i think it was timed. i think it might have even been a conspiracy among the establishment republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to donald trump. i just think some of the establishment are republicans. i'm not going to name any names. i've got some independent information, but i'm not going to reveal it on the air, but i think some of the establishment folks who reluctantly endorsed him had this planned all along as a way to slither out of the endorsements. i just really believe that it wasn't a coincidence that it
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came out right before trump was supposed to appear with paul ryan at a rally and conveniently gave paul ryan a way to disinvite trump. >> jerry falwell jr. has it on good authority, he's got good information he's not going to reveal on the air, but he's got good information that paul ryan and the republican party, they were the ones who leaked the "access hollywood" tapes. which sounds insane to most people, but now trump himself is floating the idea himself. now that he's the one floating it, all of his supporters will presumably start to believe that paul ryan is the one who made that tape. >> wouldn't you think that paul ryan would call and say, "good going" in front of just about the largest audience for a second night debate in the history of the country? so, you know, you would think
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they would go, "great going, don, let's go. let's beat this crook. she's a crook, let's beat her, we got to stop her." no, he doesn't do that. there is a whole deal going on and we're going to figure it out. i always figure things out. but there is a whole sinister deal going on. >> donald trump speaking last night about a sinister plot, a sinister deal going on between paul ryan and hillary clinton. and he, donald trump, is going to figure it out because i always figure things out. last night the "new york times" and the palm beach post published allegations from three different women saying donald trump abused them, one at a hotel, one with a friend, one who says she worked at his estate. he vehemently denied all the allegations. a trump campaign official saying last night, quote, "new york times" editors, reporters,
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politically motivated accusers all better lawyer up. trump has now threatened to sue both of the newspapers who published those accounts. it should also be noted that trump threatened to sue the "new york times" three weeks ago when they published pages of his tax return. nothing seems to have come from that threat, and there seems to be nothing from the new threats, either. when people magazine published another woman's account of reportedly being forcibly kissed by trump, and that threat was brought by melania trump, threatening to sue people magazine and the woman who said donald trump groped her. throughout his career as a celebrity, i don't think it's going to work to stop these reports in the presidential campaign. we're now at an interesting place because of that. because if this cascade of
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allegations against donald trump can't be stopped now by the campaign denying it, and it can't be stopped now by threats to sue these women or by threats to sue the news outlets that public these allegations from these women, and if many people expect that new tapes of trump will likely emerge before the election, how are they going to handle this? because it's not working for them as it is now. it's really thrown them off the rails. how are they going to handle this? how are they going to handle this new reality? if donald trump's speech in florida today is any indication of how they're going to handle it, the answer is not well. what he did in florida is being called the single most extreme and angry speech of his entire extreme and angry campaign. >> this is not simply another four-year election. this is a crossroads in the history of our civilization. hillary clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of u.s.
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sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. honestly, she should be locked up. should be. should be locked up. this is a struggle for the survival of our nation, believe me. and this will be our last chance to save it on november 8. this election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are, in fact, controlled by a small handful of global, special interests rigging the system. they will attack you. they will slander you. they will seek to destroy your career and your family. they will seek to destroy everything about you, including your reputation.
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they will lie, lie, lie, and then again, they will do worse than that. they will do whatever is necessary. the clintons are criminals, remember that. they're criminals. this is well documented, and the establishment that protects them has engaged in a massive cover-up. i take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you. i take them for our movement so that we can have our country back. our great civilization here in america and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning. i knew these false attacks would come. i knew this day would arrive. it was only a question of when. this is a conspiracy against you, the american people, and we
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cannot let this happen or continue. this is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. many of my friends and many political experts warned me that this campaign would be a journey to hell. they said that. but they're wrong. it will be a journey to heaven. i'm the only one that can fix it. >> a journey to heaven. i will take their slings and arrows for you. this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy against you by the international banks and the secret financial and global elite. you know who they are, right? we knew this thing would get down to base level before too long. we did not know there were
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but so far they have not said beep. and we've got this other granular information about mike pence.
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and we've got this other granular information about mike pence. there are a few things you need to do as a vice president candidate. you need to carry your state, you need to attack a lot and you need to raise money. mike pence has had two fundraisers this week canceled for a notable specific reason: lack of interest. lack of interest on the part of donors is not a reason that a presidential campaign should be
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cancelling its fundraisers with less than four weeks to go until election day. we reported this earlier this week about mike pence apparently not being able to fill a room for some of his fundraisers. we've put in calls for comment or confirmation from the campaign. they have told us nothing. they have not responded to us at all. but think about what this means, right? if the republican party, if its donors have shut off the trump campaign in terms of raising money, i mean, yeah, i know it's interesting to cover the personality dispute between the nominee and other republican leaders. oh, why does paul ryan say no and mitch mcconnell say yes and what does he really think? i know that's really fun, but if the money spigot is shut off between the republican party and their candidate, that's a big deal. i want to know if that's really what's happening. it seems like it is. trump campaign, pence folks, please. call us back. let us know what's going on. teat for good luck.
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okay. fair warning. we are about to blow things up a little bit. we don't do this very often. i will tell you why we don't do it very often in a second, but this requires a lot of negotiation in the building. that negotiation happened over the course of the day. i got what i wanted, so we are about to kind of blow this show up a little bit. right after this break, we're going to come back and do something that's really hard to do that i really think is important. it's something that happened in politics today that i think requires more than the usual way
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we talk about news stories, and we're going to do all that right here next. if you need to finish washing the dishes or something, you have this commercial break to do it. when we come back from this break, you will want to be seated down. xwxexe
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we've only done this a couple other times in the eight-plus-year history of this show, and that's because it's really hard to persuade the people who run this network, right, the people who are responsible for paying the bills around here, it's really hard to persuade them to let me do something like this. but they listened to me today and i got the green light. first i want to say thank you pho my boss, phil griffin, also andrew lock and the other suits that had to sign off on this and i realize this is a very expensive, very difficult ask. but i asked and they said yes. so here goes. commercial breaks be damned. you probably heard today that the first lady, michelle obama, gave a big speech.
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you might have seen clips about that speech, you might have read headlines about it, but if you were at work or at school when this happened, if you have not actually heard it the way she gave it, you should. i have a favor to ask. i want you to change your plan for how you were going to watch tv tonight. just trust me. stop what you were doing, hit pause if you need to to get organized because you won't want to get up in the middle of this. i have cut out of this speech, i'll tell you, the partisan part, the part about promoting hillary clinton's candidacy. it is stuff you have heard before. what you have not heard before and what i really think you should watch, what i moved heaven and earth for so you could watch, is her remarks. go grab your roommate or your mom. go get your kids. if you have kids in particular, you may have been feeling embarrassed about letting your kids see politics the last couple days because of the subject matter it has turned to. if you have been feeling that
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way, go get the kids and have them watch it with you. this is not the cure to the grotty, sexualized violent turn this campaign has taken, but the speech from the first lady should be seen. it is the most powerful thing i have seen in the biggest context. it's not a normal thing we're going to play this big piece of tape uninterrupted, but i totally think it's worth it for you to watch it, and i would not ask you to watch it if this were not true, so trust me. sit down. watch this in full. so i'm going to get a little serious here, because i think we can all agree that this has been a rough week in an already rough election. this week has been particularly interesting for me personally because it has been a week of profound contrast. see, on tuesday, at the white
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house, we celebrated the international day of the girl and let girls learn. and it was a wonderful celebration. it was the last event that i'm going to be doing as first lady for let girls learn. and i had the pleasure of spending hours talking with some of the most amazing young women you will ever meet, young girls here in the u.s. and all around the world. i walked away feeling so inspired just like i'm inspired by all the young people here, and i was so uplifted by these girls. that was tuesday. and now here i am out on the campaign trail in an election where we have been consistently hearing hurtful, hateful language about women. language that has been painful
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for so many of us, not just as women, but as parents trying to protect our children and raise them to be caring, respectful adults. and as citizens who think that our nation's leaders should meet basic standards of human decency. the fact is that in this election, we have a candidate for president of the united states who, over the course of his lifetime and the course of this campaign, has said things about women that are so shocking, so demeaning, i simply will not repeat anything here today. and last week we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women. i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexually assaulting women.
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and i have to tell you that i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. so while i'd love nothing more than to pretend this isn't happening and come out here and do my normal campaign speech, it would be dishonest and disingenuous for me to just move to the next thing like this was all just a bad dream. this is not something that we can ignore. it's not something we can just sweep under the rug as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season. because this was not just a lewd conversation, this wasn't just locker room banter. this was a powerful individual speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior and actually bragging about kissing and groping women, using language so obscene that many of
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us are worried about our children hearing it when we turn on the tv. and to make matters worse, it now seems clear that this isn't an isolated incident. it's one of countless examples of how he has treated women his whole life. i have to tell you, i listen to all of this and i feel it so personally. and i'm sure that many of you do, too, particularly the women. the shameful comments about our bodies, the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect, the belief that you can do anything you want to, a woman? it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. it hurts. it's like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you're walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body.
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or when you see that guy at work that stands just a little too close, stares a little too long, it makes you feel uncomfortable in your own skin. it's that feeling of terror and violation that too many women have felt when someone has grabbed them or forced himself on them and they've said no, but he didn't listen. something that we know happens on college campuses and countless other places every single day. it reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office, and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough. we thought all of that was ancient history, didn't we? and so many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and
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disrespect, but here we are, in 2016, and we're hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail. we are drowning in it. and all of us are doing what women have always done. we're trying to keep our heads above water, just trying to get through it. trying to pretend like this doesn't really bother us. maybe because we think that admitting how much it hurts makes us as women look weak. maybe we're afraid to be that vulnerable. maybe we've grown accustomed to swallowing these emotions and staying quiet because we've seen that people often won't take our word over his. or maybe we don't want to believe that there are still people out there who think so little of us as women.
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so many are treating this as just another day's headline. as if our outrage is overblown or unwarranted. as if this is normal, just politics as usual. but, new hampshire, be clear. this is not normal. this is not politics as usual. this is disgraceful, it is intolerable, and it doesn't matter what party you belong to, democrat, republican, independent, no word deserves to be treated this way, none of us deserves this kind of abuse. and i know it's a campaign, but this isn't about politics. it's about basic human decency.
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it's about right and wrong. and we simply cannot endure this or expose our children to this any longer, not for another minute, let alone for four years. now is the time for all of us to stand up and say enough is enough! this has got to stop right now. because consider this. if all of this is painful to us as grown women, what do you think this is doing to our children? what messages are little girls hearing about who they should look like, how they should act? what lessons are they learning about their value as professionals, as human beings, about their dreams and aspirations?
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and how is this affecting men and boys in this country? because i can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this, and i know that my family is not unusual. to dismiss this as everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere. the men that you and i know don't treat women this way, they are loving fathers who are sickened by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women. they are husbands and brothers and sons who don't tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. like us, these men are worried about the impact on our boys who are looking for role model on what it means to be a man.
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because let's be very clear. strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. people who are truly strong lift others up. people who are truly powerful bring others together, and that is what we need in our next president. we need someone who is a uniting force in this country. we need someone who will heal the wounds that divide us, someone who truly cares about us and our children, someone with strength and compassion to lead this country forward, and let me tell you, i'm here today because i believe with all of my heart that hillary clinton will be that president. in our hearts, we all know that
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if we let hillary's opponent win this election, then we are sending a clear message to our kids that everything they're seeing and hearing is perfectly okay. we are validating it. we are endorsing it. we're telling our sons that it's okay to humiliate women. we're telling our daughters that this is how they deserve to be treated. we're telling all our kids that bigotry and bullying are perfectly acceptable in the leader of their country. is that what we want for our children? and remember, we won't just be setting a bad example for our kids, but for our entire world. because for so long, america has been a model for countries across the globe, pushing them to educate their girls, insisting that they give more rights to their women. but if we have a president who routinely degrades women, who brags about sexually assaulting
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women, then how can we maintain our moral authority in the world? how can we continue to be a beacon of freedom and justice and human dignity? fortunately, new hampshire, here's the beauty. we have everything we need to stop this madness. you see, while our mothers and grandmothers were often powerless to change their circumstances, today we as women have all the power we need to determine the outcome of this election. we have knowledge. we have a voice. we have a vote. and on november the 8th, we as women, we as americans, we as decent human beings, can come together and declare that enough is enough. we do not tolerate this kind of
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behavior in this country. we cannot allow ourselves to be so disgusted that we just shut off the tv and walk away. and we can't just sit around wringing our hands. no, we need to recover from our shock and depression and do what women have always done in this country. we need you to roll up your sleeves. we need to get to work. because remember this, when they go low, we go -- >> high! >> yes, we do. >> i want to say thank you again to my boss, to the president of this network for allowing me to break format and kill commercials so i could play that at such length tonight, but i figured that because of the time of day it happened, a lot of you might not have seen it, and you can see why i wanted you to see
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there's a robbery. have you ever seen a catamaran? you know what a catamaran is? you've got your cruising catamarans like this one. there are also racing catamarans, those are used in ocean racing, that's what they race at the olympics. but when the u.s. navy does a catamaran it's a different kind of thing.
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this hybrid souped up catamaran is a ship called the hsv-2 swift. hsv part of that stands for "high speed vessel." this is a super fast ship. it's a wave-piercing catamaran. it has a helicopter plight deck, a vehicle deck. this is a fast, versatile warship. this particular one was built in 2003, it was part of the united states navy until last year. then last year we leased this particular ship to the united arab emirates. and two weekends ago on october 1, that ship got blown up. it was destroyed. it was hit by a missile as it was traveling between the red sea and the gulf of aden, went up in flames. again, a former u.s. navy ship being operated by the uae, that happened two weeks ago. on sunday this past weekend and again yesterday cruise missile were launched at a navy vessel that is still a u.s. ship. the uss "mason" off the coast of
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the red sea in international waters when the navy says it was shot at by cruise missiles that came at it from yemen. now, the destroyer was not hit, they say they shot back, defensively. but the strike on that former u.s. navy catamaran and sunday and yesterday's strike against the uss "mason," the u.s. says all of those strikes come from the houthis fighting the yemeni government. the houthis are in a fight and control a great deal of territory in yemen. early this morning the u.s. navy fired five tomahawk missiles at three radar sites that u.s. officials believe the rebels were using to track the movements of american ships and launch these missiles that hit that catamaran and that were shot at our destroyer. and with these tomahawk missiles being shots, this is the first shot the u.s. military has fired in the ongoing civil war in
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yemen. we're told it was personally authorized by president obama. the houthis are reportedly backed by iran, they are shiite muslims. today after a u.s. navy ship fired tomahawks at these houthi radar sites, iran reported that iran is deploying two of its own iranian warships off the same coast where our ships are now. you might remember republican candidate donald trump said in an offhanded remark during the campaign that if iranian ships got too close to american ships and if iranian sailors made rude gestures toward our american sailors under him, under president trump, we'd blow those iranian ships out of the water. well, iranian ships and u.s. ships are now in the same waters off the coast of yemen in the middle of a war with tomahawk missiles and cruise missiles
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already flying. steady on.
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>> debunktion junction what's my function. rnc tv ad spending for trump, zero dollars. that's how this was received today. rnc deprives touch of add expenditure. the republican party is starving donald trump of tv ad this is election cycle. is that true or false? [ buzzer sounding ] false. interesting story. now, the rnc did run ads for mccain in '08 and romney in 2012 but their decision this year had nothing to do with donald trump because they announced they wouldn't run ads three years ago in 2013. so, yes, trump supporters are calling this no ads thing shameful evidence that the republican party hates donald trump. it might hate donald trump.
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but if you're looking for you t "first look" is up next. if you want to hear the best case for hillary clinton, you want to hear the very real stakes in this election, i would advise you to link up to michelle's speech from earlier today in new hampshire. she was pretty good. i mean, she -- that's why you get married, to sbroouf your gene pool, so your kids end up being superior to you. >> it may have been one of those defining moments of the 2016 presidential campaign in a personal and powerful speech, michelle obama takes on donald trump. >> and trump, meanwhile, claims the attacks on him are